I’m kind of wondering whether the cat and I had the same illness — some gut infection that just didn’t show up in the cat’s veterinary tests. (Almost certainly not norovirus, because the one that affects cats is very different than the human one.)
Rico, thankfully, has not done his painful-sounding yowl for a couple of weeks now. I’m not sure he’s eating his normal amount of regular food yet, but he is super enthusiastic about the new probiotic bites I’ve been giving him.
I was sick the previous Saturday morning but recovered pretty well by lunchtime, fine Sunday through Tuesday night. I spiraled into a panic attack Tuesday night noticing my heart rate was high, and Wednesday was miserable. Thursday and Friday were not good but I managed to work. Saturday I was fine… and I probably overate when we visited my parents. Yesterday was bad again. Today I’m not at 100%, but I’m enduring work OK and ate a normal breakfast.
The biggest symptoms for me have been lower back pain (which I thought was from the deck work, but I’m not so sure anymore), lack of appetite and super low energy (physical and emotional), chills, and what seems to me like an elevated heart rate. Thankfully no actual throwing up, nor really bad diarrhea, nor fever. I think I’m just going to take it easy the next few days in terms of diet and activity, and see if it’ll work out. If it’s something viral that’s all that can really be done anyway. But once I am feeling better, I do want to go ahead and look into an official diagnosis and some help for the anxiety. There certainly are a lot of anxiety triggers in today’s world, and they don’t all rhyme with Chump.
During this same week, my spouse has been having a bad RA flareup. Hands, arm and then shoulder. She doesn’t think it was the change in the weather (because that came first) nor the deck teardown (because she doesn’t think she did that much, compared to some other gardening work she’s done) but more of a coincidence.
So, it’s been a rough one for us; hopefully this week will be much better. I didn’t really do much musically, aside from trying out a new early access synth plugin, Sine Machine. It’s an additive synth, with some clever ways of manipulating envelopes, tremolo and pitch variation across the partials, and a clear glassy sound like late 80s FM synths without the FM, which especially shines with unison detuning. It’s definitely got some bugs and an unfinished interface at the moment, but the sound is gorgeous and the potential to be even better once MPE support and some other issues are fixed is pretty wonderful.
Thankfully, both the dogs have finally gotten used to the new back stairs and don’t have to be cajoled or carried. That took some of the load off.